In supporting [overlooked] networks and institutions, we need to go beyond technical skills, to strengthening organizational capacity and effectiveness, enabling them to play stronger roles nationally.

Empowering young people to achieve their full potential is vital. Our new DFID-funded Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) project is working with higher education in east Africa to foster change at a scale that ensures that ensures students develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills that are vital beyond the classroom.

Students need to be engaged in a learning environment that encourages questioning, and that connects classroom learning to the questions that business, communities and government are asking.